DeTomaso Mailing List: April 99, Message #258

howdy

I would have to agree, it is supposed to stop fluid when faliure is
sensed... if it did not the brakepedal would "slowly" drop..........
and it would be kinda intresting if you where sitting and waiting  for
a red light......  ;)

/Gunnar

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-----Original Message-----
From: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@concentric.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <detomaso@realbig.com>
Date: den 5 april 1999 19:44
Subject: Re: Differential pressure switch


>At 13:11 04/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>-- [ From: Forest Goodhart * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
>>
>>It stops leaking because the reservoir is drained.If you refill the
>>reservoir you will find that it continues to leak back out. --------
>>REPLY, Original message follows --------
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>BZZZZT, Wrong answer... been there done that...
>
>Reservoir was NOT empty, and broken part of system was NOT leaking
due to
>the shuttle piston cutting off the flow.
>
>Care to try again?
>
>
>Of course, I'm resigned to the fact we may be talking about two
different
>designs here.  Mine is a 1973 FORD factory design, and by the
mechanical
>drawings and description I have (not handy), the design of the valve
was to
>do just as I have described... STOP the flow of fluid.
>
>Now I could be wrong here too, it's been 15 years since that problem,
but
>since I worked on it for two days, I'd rather think my memory is
intact on
>the subject, however again I'll say, I could be wrong.  And since
you've
>piqued my curiosity, I'll have to go out and dig up my drawings and
>descriptions to know for sure.
>
>Besides, it's kinda STUPID to let the customer keep pushing all that
fluid
>out a broken line, don't you think?  In the case of drum brakes...
all over
>the brake shoes and drum, or all over the underside of the car.  I
would
>think the cause of an empty reservoir would be a break BEFORE the
>press/diff valve, or a press/difff valve that was defective or
"stuck"
>preventing it from cutting off the flow.
>
>Anybody have a spare we could saw in half to settle this?
>
>Asa Jay  : )
><friendly flaming>
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